Thread: 22lr vs goat

Originally Posted by anthony

Hi guys im pretty new to hunting i have been invited to shoot some goats. i have a savage mk2 22lr it shoots around 1.5 inch at a hundred yards with supersonic winchester power points will this be fine or if not i have a old shotgun that i could probably shoot some buck shot through. Whats your opinions ?

IF you intend to shoot at 100y/m, definitely do not use a 22. Firstly, it loses about 35~45% energy, secondly there is so much drop and inherent inaccuracy you cannot guarantee good shot placement.

If you intend to shoot goats at 100, I would say a 223 is minimum.

Someone suggested SKS, the problems with SKS are that:
1. unless you do some (basic) modding, stock SKS is not accurate, I hear 3 to 4 MOA is common.
2. you will be shooting open sight, which is hard to do a headshoot at 100 even for a good shooter. Or spend money on a SKS mount to put on a scope.

by the time you do the mods and added a decent scope mount, it is not cheap anymore.